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Westgate, Stanhope parish
4 March 1796
Sir,
The Freeholders here, some of whom are your workmen, desires the very Favour, you will do your utmost in supporting a Bill now pending in Parliament for the improvement of uncultivated Lands in this Kingdom. That you would be pleased to introduce the word Stinted Pasture in the Preamble, P.7. Value of Stints to compose the Majority, P12. Surveyors to be chosen by Proprietors and not by commis[sione]rs, P.23. None to cast fuel in stinted Pastures where they have not purchased a right, as these stints is neither appendant, nor appurtenant to their Lands or Houses & hold Stints without Lands, therefore it is not equity for the Legislature to give a right to non-proprietors where they have not made purchase as it is so disagreeably set forth in this clause, P.24. Rectors to have Land in <lieu> of Tythes & all Barren Heath to pay none for the first 7 years P.35. <Race> Ground not to prevent enclosures where their [sic] are no Fairs.
Your support to these hints by comparing them with the Bill is the desire of the Freeholders for whom I am for.
yr mo. obt. Servt
John Wallis
P.S. The stints of those Pastures & Moors Vote for a member of Parliament in the county of Durham & by computation are not less than 30,000 Acres.
Your presence this summer is much looked for, corn being so excessive high.
[verso:] Thomas Richd Beaumont/ MP for Northumberland/ London
[in John Bell’s hand:] Mr John Wallis Westgate Weardale
NRO 672/A/36/28. A petition on behalf of Weardale freeholders requesting support for amendments to a Bill before Parliament mainly concerning the holding of stints on common land.
